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Terms English 5-6
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The practice of beginning several consecutive or neighboring words with the same consonant sound. | Alliteration |
| The reference to a mythological, literary, or historical place, or thing. | Allusion |
| When the absent are spoken to as if present, animate. | Apostrophe |
| Repetition of a consonant vowel within a series of words to produce a harmonious effect. | Consonance |
| Word choice to convey a certain effect. | Diction |
| Words or phrases that describe one thing in terms of something else. | Figures of Speech |
| A scene that interrupts the action of work to show a previous event. | Flashback |
| Use of hints or clues in a narrative to suggest future action. | Foreshadowing |
| Deliberate, extravagant, outrageous exaggeration. | Hyperbole |
| Words or phrases a writer uses to represent people, objects, actions, feelings, and ideas. | Imagery |
| When a speaker says one thing, but means the opposite. | Verbal Irony |
| Occurs when a situation occurs differently from what one would expect. | Situational Irony |
| When a character or speaker does something that has different meanings from what he/she thinks it means;the audience and the other characters fully understand the speech or action. | Dramatic Irony |
| A comparison of two unlike things, not using like or as. | Metaphor |
| Atmosphere or predominant emotion of a literary work. | Mood |
| Use of words that mimic the sounds they describe. | Onomatopoeia |
| A form of paradox combining opposite terms into a single unusual expression | Oxymoron |
| When elements of a statement contradict each other;may seem illogical but reveals a hidden truth. | Paradox |
| Metaphor that gives inanimate objects human characteristics. | Personification |
| The central character in a drama, novel, short story, or narrative poem. | Protagonist |
| Play on words identical or similar in sound, but diverse meanings;much humorous sense. | Pun |
| Repetition of sounds in two or more phrases that appear close to each other. | Rhyme |
| Repetition of sounds that occur at the end of lines | End Rhyme |
| An approximate rhyme where vowels or consonants of stressed syllables are identical. | Slant Rhyme |
| The use of verbal irony where a person seems to be praising, but is actually insulting something. | Sarcasm |
| A change in movement of a piece resulting from an epiphany, realization, or insight gained by the speaker, character, or reader. | Shift/Turn |
| Comparison of two different things or ideas using the words like or as. | Simile |
| Stylistic techniques conveying meanings through sound. | Sound Devices |
| Framework or organization of a literary selection. | Structure |
| Any object, person, place, or action that has a meaning in itself and stands for something larger than itself. | Symbol |
| A form of metaphor where a part of something is used to signify the whole, and vice-versa. | Synecdoche |
| Arrangement of words and order of grammatical elements in a sentence. | Syntax |
| Central message of a literary work. | Theme |
| Writer or speaker's attitude to the subject, character, or audience;conveyed through the choice of words and detail. | Tone |
| The opposite of hyperbole, an under exaggeration. | Understatement |
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